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Mongoose Web Server vs ReactPHP: What are the differences?
Developers describe Mongoose Web Server as "The most easy to use web server on the planet". Mongoose is built on top of Libmongoose embedded library, which can turn anything into a web server in 5 minutes worth of effort and few lines of code. Libmongoose is used to serve Web GUI on embedded devices, implement RESTful services, RPC frameworks (e.g. JSON-RPC), handle telemetry data exchange, and perform many other tasks in various different industries including aerospace, manufacturing, finance, research, automotive, gaming, IT. On the other hand, ReactPHP is detailed as "Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP". Aa low-level library for event-driven programming in PHP. At its core is an event loop, on top of which it provides low-level utilities.
Mongoose Web Server and ReactPHP can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
Mongoose Web Server is an open source tool with 5.51K GitHub stars and 1.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mongoose Web Server's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Mongoose Web Server
- Light weight1
- Easy to configure1
- Web server1